mechadragoon14 wrote:
well then don't watch it u piece of trash
I don't know, but they are really annoying movies made by 13 year old boys and 16 year old girls that often feature terrible songs and people making me hate the anime included in the video? I do find them hillarious in how bad they are, but the world would be better off without Dragon Ball Z and Linkin Park music videos. That is just me though. It seems like I'm jaded and I want to hear from less jaded anime fans.

Most people here hate AMVs because of youtube. Quality is horrible, and the kids there don't have a clue as to what they're doing. There are however, lots of excellent AMVs out there worth watching. Of course, the ones that are worthy of a view gets drowned in a sea of Linkin Park + Naruto AMVs.

As for me, I've been making AMVs for a year. At first, I spent a few hours on my first one, and it shows. It's absolutely horrible and I won't give you guys a link to it, but just know that it sucks. After watching some GOOD AMVs, I decided to invest some time into making it. The result was a mediocre AMV backed up by 2 weeks of work.

By now, I spend at least a month on an AMV. This is the latest one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=y1nfSIb8T0k
It's a Fruits Basket AMV that uses both the anime and the manga to give a quick overview of the series. There are many more AMVs out there that are much better. You just have to know where to look.

I like AMVs personally. Sometimes I even get into the crappy ones of hastily thrown together footage. I think one of the problems lies in feedback. People that don't know much about AMVs will watch one that includes their favorite anime and/or song and give feedback that it was awesome even though it blew. Thus the maker thinks they are doing a good job and doesn't try to improve. Another draw back is the price of decent video editing software. Something I try to keep in mind is that most of them are peoples first few attempts at making them and they probably aren't all that familiar with the software. I do agree that just throwing random footage together with a song rarely works out.